The Japanese woman was unhappy.
"An avalanche of foreigners could swarm into Japan and eventually occupy pivotal posts in the Japanese government," she recently wrote on a Web site. "Then, what if war breaks out and those foreigners leak out Japan's classified information to their home countries?"
The site is campaigning against a growing political movement to give limited suffrage to foreigners who have permanent residency status in Japan.
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